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WorksheetsThe Federal Courts
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which is true of the Supreme Court of the United States?
Judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the House of Representatives.
Judges serve at the will of the president.
Judges are appointed for life and can only be removed by impeachment.
Judges set their own salaries and benefits.
Judges are always from the same political party as the president.
Who was the first woman to serve in the Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sonia Sotomayor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elena Kagan
What is an examination of the political ideology of a nominated judge?
Ideology test
Judiciary personality examination
Political stance test
Litmus test
What is it called when a person is chosen by the president to fill a position while the senate is not in session?
Filling selection
Recess appointment
Recess filler
Break appointment
Who was the Chief Justice during the Reagan administration that framed a series of conservative rulings on abortion, affirmative action and capital punishment?
Warren
Marshall
Roberts
Rehnquist
What is the standing committee of the United States Senate that considers matters related to the federal judiciary and the administration of justice in the United States?
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Justice Committee
Federal Judiciary Committee
US Federal Court Committee
As Chief Justice, this justice spearheaded radical changes in areas of equal protection, law enforcement, and representative apportionment. Some important cases that he was involved in were Brown v Board of Education, Mapp v Ohio, Miranda v Arizona, and Reynolds v Sims.
Marshall
Rehnquist
Warren
Brown
What is a custom whereby presidential appointments are confirmed only if there is no objection to them by the senators from the appointee's state, especially from the senior senator of the president's party from that state?
Congressional Courtesy
Senatorial Courtesy
Senate Confirmation
Congressional Confirmation
What is the legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court which was used to further promote the beliefs and politics of the current president?
Justice addition
Court promotion
Court filling
Court packing
What is a government wherein all the attributes of sovereignty have, by usurpation, been transferred from those who had been legally invested with them to others, who, sustained by a power above the forms of law, claim to act and do really act in their stead?
Amicus Curiae
Quid pro quo
De Facto veto power
Habeus Corpus
Who was an American lawyer who was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1967. He was the first African-American to hold the position and served for 24 years, until 1991. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools?
Rehnquist
Marshall
Brown
Warren
Who has the power to override a judiciary appointment?
President
House of Rep.
Senate
Speaker of the House
How many Supreme Court Justices have not been white males?
10
4
7
6
What fraction of votes is needed to veto a judiciary appointment?
1/2
2/3
3/4
1/3
What age are most Supreme Court justices when they first take office?
40-50
50-60
60-70
70-80
